хирлӳ

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kiriĺ ~ *kïrïĺ (“bowstring”). Cognate with Turkish kiriş and Bashkir кереш (kereş).

Noun

хирлӳ • (hirlü) (plural хирлӳсем) 

1. bowstring

References

• Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “хирлӳ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 350
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “хирлӳ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 301

Further reading

• “хирлӳ”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.